Nvidia 495 "supported"

General system Newbie
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hey im pretty new to linux and endeavourOS in general so please try to be kind :slight_smile:

Yesterday my system ‘broke’ because of the new nvidia driver now i checked with

nvidia-driver-supported-branches -a

and now it says that the nvidia 495 drivers are supported.

[mixel@mixel-ms7a33 ~]$ nvidia-driver-supported-branches -a
NVIDIA card id: 1c03
Series 495: supported
Series 470: supported
Series 390: supported
Series 340: not supported

should I reinstall the nvidia 495 drivers now?
Also I installed the old drivers with yay is there a good way so i can always upgrade them with pacman again?

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Could you show the output of this command

inxi -Ga
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yes of course

[mixel@mixel-ms7a33 ~]$ inxi -Ga
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 470.82.00
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 23:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1c03 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: nvidia resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.82.00 direct render: Yes

4

Yes your card is supported. I have the same graphics card. Not sure why your system broke? What do you mean? I installed the latest 495.xx drivers with no issue. What desktop are you using? You should be able to update to the 495.xx version.

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So basically I did sudo pacman -Syu as always
Then I rebooted my system and I couldnt get past idk what it was anymore sadly
after the ramdisk and kernel initialisation.
And then I had to go in the comman line with alt+ctrl+f2 to then uninstall my nvidia drivers and install the 470xx via yay from the AUR.

After that I rebooted again and had no issues until now (a couple of games are wont start anymore since then)

6

You’re current output is correct. The 470.xx drivers are installed and the Render is using the hardware. Is it currently working?

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yes it currently working with the 470.xx drivers
I followed these instructions: Nvidia drops 700 (Kepler) into legacy branch (470xx) - #21 by d.lion.2020

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Possibly the DKMS module failed to build. You could try installing nvidia-dkms and see what output it provides.

9

Not sure where you are located but i would update the mirrors from the welcome app tool. Then update the system after either from the terminal with

sudo pacman -Syu

or other

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I tried right now but it gives me this error

[mixel@mixel-ms7a33 ~]$ sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms
[sudo] password for mixel:
resolving dependencies…
looking for conflicting packages…
:: nvidia-utils and nvidia-470xx-utils are in conflict (nvidia-libgl). Remove nvidia-470xx-utils? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing nvidia-470xx-utils breaks dependency ‘nvidia-470xx-utils=470.82.00’ required by nvidia-470xx-dkms

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Im from germany.
Also I updated the mirrors and did sudo pacman -Syu but there was nothing to update

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Your mirrors must not have the 495.xx drivers yet?

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They did but like i said i uninstalled them and installed the 470xx from the AUR with yay
I did that so that it can boot properly again :sweat_smile:

Also if i do yay -Syu its also not giving me the 495 drivers :confused:

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Yes, I didn’t provide a copy-paste line because I don’t know exactly which packages you installed. However, you’ll have to replace any 470xx packages with their 495xx equivalent at the same time, e.g.

sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils

Note: this is not a final copy-paste command, you may have to iterate it to replace all packages you have installed.

It won’t do - you explicitly installed the 470xx drivers.

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Okay you don’t need those ones because your card is supported. I’m not sure now what is the best way to remove those and go back to the regular repo drivers? @jonathon

Edit: I just don’t want to mess things up on you so I’m being cautious.

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@jonathon
So will this remove the explicitlly installed 470.xx packages

sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils
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Uhh so what exactly do I have to figure out to upgrade the driver again
Do I have to install every package that I manually downgraded again and it will automatically install the newest version or will I have to check for my current 470xx version to then do something with that?

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I think you can go ahead and try.

sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils
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I did its the same issue as above I think I have to get every package that i downgraded (but im not quiet sure if thats the way to go)

[mixel@mixel-ms7a33 ~]$ sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils
resolving dependencies…
looking for conflicting packages…
:: nvidia-utils and nvidia-470xx-utils are in conflict (nvidia-libgl). Remove nvidia-470xx-utils? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing nvidia-470xx-utils breaks dependency ‘nvidia-470xx-utils=470.82.00’ required by nvidia-470xx-dkms

Also thank you both for helping :slight_smile:
I know it can be really frustrating with me

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@jonathon
I had a similar issue the other day with a user trying to install the 340.xx version drivers for a 9400 GT and because of dependencies it wouldn’t allow to remove the 340.xx-utils no matter if i used the dkms version or not. I ended up removing nvidia-dkms and then installed the 340.xx driver version. I didn’t install the 340xx-dkms but I’m sure i could have then. But he didn’t have any drivers installed for nvidia so that’s what was weird about it. It was saying the same thing that removing nvidia-470xx-utils breaks the dependency yet no drivers were installed. I just removed nvidia-dkms and it installed the 340xx drivers and utils. :man_shrugging:

Edit: Actually he was booting up to starting version 249… blah blah and i add the drm parameter and then it came up saying it required the 340xx drivers but wouldn’t allow to install because of this. So this is how i got around that. I don’t know why it wouldn’t work on nouveau either?